Led by Germans, Europeans are increasingly disillusioned with Obama

posted at 3:36 pm on June 13, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Oh, how the mighty fall! When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, plenty of Europeans were arguably more excited than Americans about the United States’ new celebrity-in-chief. European youths turned out in droves to cheer the new world leader, glad to be rid of his uncivilized cowboy of a predecessor, and the Nobel crowd promptly presented him with a peace prize after less than a year in office.

But it seems that all of the craic and the shmoozing and presenting the Queen with an iPod full of Barack Obama’s greatest hits was for naught. You can’t out-cool an economic crisis, and his erstwhile international support group just isn’t feeling the same level of love they once harbored for the broken-promises president. Spiegal reports on a new Pew Research Center survey that suggests Obama’s popularity with Europeans is a sharp decline:

In a new global survey released on Wednesday, approval of President Barack Obama’s policies has declined significantly since he first took office. Overall confidence in Obama and attitudes toward the US have slipped modestly as a consequence. By several measures some of the greatest slippage has occurred in Germany, especially with regard to America’s image and Obama’s foreign policies. After more than three years in office, Germans are disappointed in the US president’s unilateralism; his use of force, particularly drone strikes; his inaction with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian situation and his lack of effort in curbing climate change.

Of course, Europeans’ confidence in Obama remains squarely in the positives (if only he could get numbers like that at home!), but the sharp drop in approval of his policies is probably a “change” upon which Team Obama isn’t too keen. Obama was supposed to stop America from supposedly taking the reins and acting like, heaven forbid, a superpower (a.k.a., more multilateral dithering, please!); but his drone strikes, “kill list,” and other perceived unilateral actions aren’t too popular with the Europeans.

Stinks for Obama that Germans are so disillusioned with him of late — they’re the most stable country holding down the economic fort over there, and as Europe’s and the United States’ economic crises are so inextricably linked, he’s going to need their cooperation.

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Who cares what Europeans think about American politics? I don’t. They can take their opinions and stuff it.

I do care that Germany thought it appropriate to host an AMERICAN campaign rally in Berlin, for Berliners. That was pathetic and offensive (and illegal so far as Barky’s actions were concerned, not to mention the most repulsive political act in American history). Germany never apologized to us over this outrageous act and they deserve to be punished for it, along with Barky held to account for the illegal and un-Constitutional nature of his actions.

I cannot imagine that America would ever host the campaign rally of a foreign candidate on the Mall in Washington. Just the idea is pure insanity. Pure. Insanity.

But … this is all part of “American political tradition” now. Yep. Crazy.

Barack Obama is a champion of an economic model that has failed in Europe. That Obama continues to cheerlead for the failed “stimulus” model has Europeans wondering if there is anything occupying the space between his ears.

Why aren’t those adoring crowds empathizing with SippyCup? Why aren’t they rioting, demanding that all conservatives, Republicans, and Tea-Partiers be thrown in jail & executed for daring to “defy” The Won?

I mean after all, EuroTrash Elites are just like Democrats when a Republican President is in the White House: America sucks, America deserves to lose, a majority of American voters are dumb, etc.

So what has changed that they’re not angry? I guess because they were expecting to have their mortgages paid for & gas put in their tanks.

Hmm…

p.s. Europe: Get Bent. You wanted SippyCup so badly, you take him on 1/20/2013. I’m sick of your rank hypocrisy.

I could never understand what it was about a vetted Chicago political hack that made him into a media darling. It was so obvious from the very beginning that this was a tryo in every respect, and that he didn’t have thhe brains to complete in the Washington rat race on his own merits – of which there were damned few to base anything on.
Take the guns out of the Chicago machine’s hands and give the local folk a chance to re-vote on their reps. One thing for sure: Congresscritter Jesse Jackson, Junior, would be out on his ash in abour five minutes followed shortly by the Kenyan Kid.

What is the true surprise is just how dimwitted the Germans and other Europeans are. This is proven by how long it has taken them to recognize what an idiot Obama really is. Of course, if you’ve ever read anything in Der Spiegel it won’t be as much of a surprise.

What I find curious is both Japan’s and Russia’s impression that Obama’s policies are favorable toward the U.S. has increased greatly. Contrast that with international policies.

Is it fair to interpret this polling of Russia and Japan as, “Obama is great for U.S. but rotten for the rest of us.”

shick on June 13, 2012 at 4:07 PM

Of course Japan is kind of happy, we have started to raise the yen out of the doldrums and almost 2 decades of stagnation. The Russian numbers, well that is all of Putin’s friends waiting for that increased “flexibility” of a second term.

What took so long? Obama has been a laughingstock since he took office. He picked a babbling fool to be his vice president and its been getting worse since then. Now he sounds like a spoiled brat blaming everybody but himself for the misery of the last 3 1/2 years. Only the most brainwashed illiterates would not see the incompetence and corruption.

You must have trouble reading- the Europeans are unhappy that he hasn’t far left enough.

Wrong again, the Germans watch in amazement as far right idiocy prevented Obama from breaking up the too big to fail banks and as Obama followed Bush’s approach to unilateral military action.

bayam on June 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM

Yeah. And we should care about what Europeans think because they have been so wise at dealing with their own fiscal problems…..their own idiocy (fiscal and political) surpass by far the idiocy and incompetence of our political class over here, so why on earth would anyone care about what the collective bunch of losers called EU think….if the Imbecile in chief had governed more from the left than he already did, as apparently the europeans desire, we would have been worse off and in deeper poop than they are right now..oh, or maybe that’s the idea, and reason why they ‘care’ so much about how we do over here….

What is the true surprise is just how dimwitted the Germans and other Europeans are. This is proven by how long it has taken them to recognize what an idiot Obama really is. Of course, if you’ve ever read anything in Der Spiegel it won’t be as much of a surprise.

woodNfish on June 13, 2012 at 4:19 PM

We have Fox News, private talk radio, and a couple of newspapers to tell us the truth. Do the Euros have anything that tells them the truth about little Bammie?

Do the Euros have anything that tells them the truth about little Bammie?

Evidently not.

“If we give up the liability principle, the European market economy will lose its most important allocative virtue: the careful selection of investment opportunities by creditors. We would then waste part of the capital generated by the arduous savings of earlier generations. I am surprised that the president of the world’s most successful capitalist nation would overlook this.”

- Hans-Werner Sinn, German economist and President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research

We have Fox News, private talk radio, and a couple of newspapers to tell us the truth. Do the Euros have anything that tells them the truth about little Bammie?

slickwillie2001 on June 13, 2012 at 5:53 PM

They have the internet just like we do, willie. Not sure about commercial publications and broadcasts. If it is all like the commies at the BBC then that would certainly explain more of it. Even so, I’m still not willing to give them a pass on being certified dumbasses.

the Germans watch in amazement as far right idiocy prevented Obama from breaking up the too big to fail banks and as Obama followed Bush’s approach to unilateral military action.

bayam on June 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM

I do not support our military adventurism. I fully agree with Ron Paul that we should worry about our own national defense and close all our overseas bases and bring home all our military. 9-11 happened because we keep militarily sticking our noses in other countries business. They rightly do not like it and we would not like it if any other country was to do it to us. We could cut our military budget by 2/3 if we’d pay attention to our own defense and stop trying to be the policemen of the world.

However, do you have any proof republicans stopped Odumbass from breaking up the banks? I’m all for breaking them up and ending the crony capitalism of these F’ing crooks.

Lastly, you are wrong about Bush acting unilaterally. He didn’t, but you obviously fell for the slimeball LSM lie.

Germans are disappointed in the US president’s unilateralism; his use of force, particularly drone strikes; his inaction with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian situation and his lack of effort in curbing climate change.

Well, they’re mad for all the wrong reasons, but at least they’re mad.